Subchapters
- Riots & Rockets Army Days Map (1968-1971)
- Family in the Military
- The Vietnam War Heats Up
- The Decision to Enlist
- Fort Holabird and Intelligence Training
- CIAD in the CD of OACSI at DA in DC
- The Vance Report
- Directorate of Civil Disturbance Planning and Operations
- Bernardine Dohrn-The SDS Revolutionaries Then and Now
- The Army Operations Center (AOC)
- The Blue U and CIA Training
- The Safeguard Anti-Ballistic Missile System
- Huntsville, Alabama, and the Army Missile Command
- NORAD and Cheyenne Mountain
- Johnston Atoll and the Origins of Space Warfare
- Kwajalein Atoll—The Ronald Reagan Missile Test Site
- Kent State University and the Aftermath
- Yale, The Black Panthers, and the Army
- The Secretary of the Army’s Special Task Force
- Getting Short—The 1971 Stop the Government Protests
- 1974 Congressional Hearings on Military Surveillance
- Lunch with Gen. William Westmoreland
The Safeguard Anti-Ballistic Missile System
Initial Safeguard deployment plan
One project that I devoted a lot of time to in 1969 was a counterintelligence study related to the Army’s Safeguard Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) System under development. I was appointed to a working group in downtown Arlington, Virginia, tasked with understanding the counterintelligence issues associated with the Army’s new Safeguard ABM system. Safeguard was a successor to earlier Nike missile systems.
Nike had been designed to intercept Soviet nuclear bombers. Safeguard was to defend against intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).
My contribution to the group’s work was to make a detailed analysis of the possible espionage and sabotage threats to the Safeguard system’s functionality.
